If this new change makes it where I can’t continue to block ads using either NextDNS or AdGuard VPN, I will promptly stop subscribing.
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Apple Further Expanding Into Ads, Now Directly Selling Ads in News App
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I don’t think he has an app on the App Store.
How do they know how much revenue to collect, data. Simple data like screen times and length are gold mines. Any data shared is valuable data. If you believe otherwise, think again.
First, your 'nothing is free' argument is not really valid. Last time I checked, I paid a significant amount of money for these devices. Second, I am deeply integrated into the ecosystem. I use several Apple devices and even pay for some of their services, and switching to another ecosystem would cost me both a lot of time and money.
This is a mistake. I know Apple is desperately looking for new revenue streams, but this is a bad road they are going down. I hate to use the whole Steve wouldn’t have done this, but he wouldn’t have. This is where you draw the line.
You're all paying for the regular News+ subscription though, right?
If you don't want ads you'll need to subscribe to the forthcoming ad-free tier. It'll be called Apple News-
The + (plus) means with ads, the - (minus) means without ads.
But Apple News is not free, isn’t it? I don’t know it’s not available in my country.
Lets hope they don’t bring ads to Apple Maps as is done with Waze.
Sounds like they are copying Microsoft
If Apple's getting deeper into ads, I guess we should expect an Apple TV+ with ads tier soon similar to Hulu, Disney+, Netflix, etc.
The News app is free to use and contains a great deal of content. You can subscribe to News+ for additional content like magazines and newspapers, and other exclusive content, just like Apple TV+ subscription. The free part of the News app is quite useful for a lot of people. I would be surprised if the ads are intended for News+ subscribers.
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Apple is providing more reasons to NOT use News than they are to use News. Does not sound like a winning proposition for any real world aware users.
I just can't see why anyone would pay for curated propaganda?
I just can't see why anyone would pay for curated propaganda?
If you want cheaper subscription prices then yes, you should expect ads as part of the deal, as well as no Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, Dolby Atmos (spacial audio), just like the streaming services you mentioned.
News+ subscribers have ads right now, (Google sense) along with the free version users. I see no reason why Apple would change that model.
Precisely why I just cancelled Amazon Prime after about a decade of continuous subscribing. If it's free, I tolerate ads. We all understand that services have to be paid for somehow, if I'm the one paying for it, no way will I put up with being subject to bloody adverts.
The only app more worthless than the stock-tracking app.
..and I follow stocks.
..and I follow stocks.
I already find it fairly obnoxious in the App Store and settings (even though it’s usually for their own services) and it’s creeping up elsewhere. The quest for never ending YoY growth is cancerous.
Did Apple ever present themselves as an anti-Google? People buy Apple products for what they are - not what they aren't.
In 5 years, Apple will disable extensions in Safari ‘for security reasons.’
Apple has so far managed to avoid the greater levels of product degradation that we've seen from Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, but decisions like this point to a course that will lead Apple to the same places as those other companies. I've had no problem cutting Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Microsoft out of my personal digital life. I did cancel my Amazon Prime after they announced ads in their streaming service and due to the many ways they've added additional fees on top of my annual Prime membership that also goes up in price every year.
If Apple goes this route, I may not be able to cut them off entirely. All of my hardware is Apple and I'm fully into the icloud ecosystem. I may just have to drop down to more essential services like the cloud storage and hide my email and drop things like News and Arcade and so on (which really I only use because I have Apple One).
If Apple goes this route, I may not be able to cut them off entirely. All of my hardware is Apple and I'm fully into the icloud ecosystem. I may just have to drop down to more essential services like the cloud storage and hide my email and drop things like News and Arcade and so on (which really I only use because I have Apple One).
Gotta keep that services revenue growing for the shareholders.
I want to like Apple News, I have it, I subscribe to Apple One and “+” is included, but I cannot say that I think it is a great app. The + content is too abstracted, and too hard to see organized by source in chronological order. Typically the way I find myself using Apple News is by running across a paywalled article that I want to read on the open web, copying the title, and then searching for it on the + side of Apple News if it is from a source that I know is included. I simply do not like the way News organizes content. I also do not appreciate how much of the premium content seems to be in the form of PDF copies of magazines. I also do not like paying for services that have ads injected at all. There is too much space in Apple News dedicated to ads. Also, I wish I could remove the stupid Sports tab from the menu and replace it with something I care about.
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